A clear and practical introduction to Buddhism for contemporary life. This book presents Buddhism as a path of personal growth, ethical living and spiritual community, offering a vision of human potential and social transformation grounded in meditation, wisdom and compassion.
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About the Author vii
Series Introduction ix
Foreword xiii
Four Gifts 1
A Method of Personal Development 3
A Vision of Human Existence 19
The Nucleus of a New Society 33
A Blueprint for a New World 51
Notes 65
Index 69
Sangharakshita (1925-2018) was a Buddhist teacher who spent nearly twenty years in India before returning to the United Kingdom and founding the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (originally the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order). He was an important translator of Buddhism into western culture in the latter half of the 20th century.
Born in London as Dennis Lingwood, he became a Buddhist monk in India in 1949. He studied with Buddhist teachers from Theravada, Chinese and Tibetan traditions, and from 1957 spent several months each year teaching the dalit Buddhist followers of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. In 1964 he returned to the UK and established the FWBO (now Triratna) in 1967, drawing on the riches of the entire Buddhist universe, as well as helpful aspects of Western cultural traditions.
Sangharakshita was a prolific author, from his first major work A Survey of Buddhism (1957), to edited lectures and seminars, to a series of memoirs of his time in India and the West. His Complete Works have now been published in 27 volumes by Windhorse Publications. The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is a thriving worldwide movement, in which his teachings continue to inspire practitioners new and old.
